Hi
familia! Thank you for all of your emails and love. And THANK YOU FOR THE
PACKAGE!!!!!!! I loved it! Wore the skirt on Sunday. I was amazed at how
excited I could get over two new items of clothing. So thank you! And also
thanks for your insights and spiritual thoughts and all of that...both Dad and
Allison mentioned taking advantage of the primary program, and I think we
should definitely implement that.
Allison
asked me how the language is coming along. It's definitely improving...it's
hard for me to know how much though. But I find myself using a lot of
vocabulary I didn't use to know, so I take that as a good sign. I think that
having a native comp prevents me from taking as much initiative as I would
otherwise, which is something I'm constantly trying to work on. So yeah, it's
getting there! I think teaching isn't so much an issue, so much as just normal
back-and-forth conversation at a fast pace, ya know? But it's getting better!
Mom
asked me about the food I eat. Well we eat lunch at home...and that's normally
quesadillas, turkey sandwiches, or leftovers. I allow myself to buy one treat
at Walmart a week. I eat lots of granola bars, bananas, peaches...basically the
exact same stuff I ate up at school. So I'm lucky about that. When we eat with
members, that is just what you would expect...rice, beans, tortillas, chicken.
Good mexican food!
Companionship
is going well. It's interesting to see how each companionship finds their own
little "niche", and it's hard for me to know how I'm doing. With transfers
coming up in a week, I'm getting nervous thinking about what will become of me.
There is a slight chance that either Sister Lamb or I would be asked to train,
because we've used teh new program (even though Sister Tejada and I really
haven't haha)...and that scares me half to death. So yeah, I don't know what's
going to happen, BAH! But everything happens for a reason.
Alrighty...highlights. Trunk or treat was this past week! Haha that was entertaining. Branch president had asked us to do something missionary-esque, so we created this game where they did different missionary activities we had pulled out of the Liahona. Then with their candy we also gave them little missionary tags they could put their names on. BUt we also had investigators there, so we had to abandon our booth at times, and would come back to find it ambushed by the children hahaha. But yes, Dianna and her sisters came to the Halloween party! We walked up and she was sitting there at the table, so that was good. And one of the members invited her to church and was really nice. Then Estefania came! She is the girl that used to be super mean to the missionaries, and then totally changed on us. (I might've called her Roxana in the last letter.) Anywho, so she came to the party, the branch pres gave her some pamphlets and stuff about YW, and then she came to church on Sunday w/ her little brother! That was really good. You could tell she felt really out of her comfort zone, but then in the classes w/ the youth she did really well, was answering questions and all of that. So we're teaching her this Wednesday which I'm excited about. She has a tough exterior, but you can tell that something has switched in her and she is ready to change.
This
past week we also had a GREAT lesson with Ana. She told us she wants to be
baptized in December, and we're hoping to move that up. It showed me what a
difference it makes when there aren't screaming kids in lessons...it's much
easier to concentrate. And she just knew all the answers so well, she is so
prepared. So that was really good.
We had
Sister Romano come for a day with us this past week, as well as Sister Mckee
the next day. So that was cool to see how they work and to get ideas from those
exchanges. One idea that Sister Romano gave us was to heart attack our
investigators! So this Saturday we heart attacked Griselda, because we hadn't
seen her in like 2 weeks. So we covered her door w/ hearts and whatnots that
had little scripture references and things like that. Then the next day we
called and she said she really liked it and we have an appointment for this
week! So that was really fun.
This
past week we also had a good "following the Spirit" moment...we were
planning on visiting Dianna, but then sister tejada felt we should visit Dina,
a new investigator. We went by there, and she was sitting outside with an older
man. Turns out it was the father of her husband that had passed away, and he
had just arrived from new jersey right then. We started talking with him and he
told us about how he's been praying for something, looking for something,
started to cry, all of that...basicalyl said he's ready to start searching for
God. So they are coming to the visitor's center this Tuesday!
This
past Saturday in the VC I was able to teach a guy from Pusan, Korea! He was
awesome! Came here with his old ESL teacher who's a member. He's been here
since April and we talked a lot about faith and how he can have more of it. He
was so sweet...I asked him what things he needs right now that he feels the
Savior could give him, and he talked about how he felt like he needed more love
for other people...that sometimes when people are rude, it's hard for him to
love them, even though he knows he should. It was so great, so the missionaries
were lined up to visit him! Woohoo!
Anywhozle,
I love you all so much. I've been thinking a lot about how we can understand
our Savior's love for us and our Heavenly Father's love for us, and I've been
struggling with it recently...knowing when to feel loved, approved, all of
that. Then this morning, I realized that the best way I can measure how much my
Heavenly Father loves me is thinking about how much my own parents and family
love me. So thank you for all of your love and support, because it helps me to
realize and understand the love and support I get from my Heavenly Father and
Older Brother. So thank you! Have a great week, I love you all. Love, Hermana
Fors
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